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Flow-matching models have recently emerged as a powerful framework for continuous generative modeling, including 3D point cloud synthesis. However, their deployment is limited by the need for multiple sequential sampling steps at inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Elaheh Akbari , Shansita Sharma , Ping He , Ahmadreza Moradipari , Kyungtae Han , Hamed Pirsiavash , Yikun Bai , Soheil Kolouri

Unbalanced optimal mass transport (OMT) seeks to remove the conservation of mass constraint by adding a source term to the standard continuity equation in the Benamou-Brenier formulation of OMT. In this note, we show how the addition of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Jiening Zhu , Rena Elkin , Jung Hun Oh , Joseph O. Deasy , Allen Tannenbaum

This work introduces a data-driven, non-intrusive reduced-order modeling (ROM) framework that leverages Optimal Transport (OT) for multi-fidelity and parametric problems in two-phase flows modelling. Building upon the success of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Moaad Khamlich , Niccolò Tonicello , Federico Pichi , Gianluigi Rozza

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

Reliable traversable area segmentation in unstructured environments is critical for planning and decision-making in autonomous driving. However, existing data-driven approaches often suffer from degraded segmentation performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhihua Zhao , Guoqiang Li , Chen Min , Kangping Lu

Optimal transport (OT) is a popular and powerful tool for comparing probability measures. However, OT suffers a few drawbacks: (i) input measures required to have the same mass, (ii) a high computational complexity, and (iii) indefiniteness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen , Kenji Fukumizu

This paper proposes the use of the Hellinger--Kantorovich metric from unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) in a dimensionality reduction and learning (supervised and unsupervised) pipeline. The performance of UOT is compared to that of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-24 Muhammad Rana , Keaton Hamm

Modern transportation network modeling increasingly involves the integration of diverse methodologies including sensor-based forecasting, reinforcement learning, classical flow optimization, and demand modeling that have traditionally been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Xuesong , Zhou , Taehooie Kim , Mostafa Ameli , Henan , Zhu , Yu- dai Honma , Ram M. Pendyala

Optimal transport aligns samples across distributions by minimizing the transportation cost between them, e.g., the geometric distances. Yet, it ignores coherence structure in the data such as clusters, does not handle outliers well, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ching-Yao Chuang , Stefanie Jegelka , David Alvarez-Melis

We investigate unpaired image inverse problems, a challenging setting where only independent, non-paired sets of noisy measurements and clean target signals are available for training. We propose a novel inverse problem solver based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Donggyu Lee , Taekyung Lee , Jaewoong Choi

Optimal Transport (OT) has established itself as a robust framework for quantifying differences between distributions, with applications that span fields such as machine learning, data science, and computer vision. This paper offers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sina Moradi

Optimal Transport, a theory for optimal allocation of resources, is widely used in various fields such as astrophysics, machine learning, and imaging science. However, many applications impose elementwise constraints on the transport plan…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Zixuan Cang , Qing Nie , Yanxiang Zhao

Optimal Transport (OT) naturally arises in many machine learning applications, yet the heavy computational burden limits its wide-spread uses. To address the scalability issue, we propose an implicit generative learning-based framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Yujia Xie , Minshuo Chen , Haoming Jiang , Tuo Zhao , Hongyuan Zha

Finding a transformation between two unknown probability distributions from finite samples is crucial for modeling complex data distributions and performing tasks such as sample generation, domain adaptation and statistical inference. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhe Xiong , Qiaoqiao Ding , Xiaoqun Zhang

Optimal transport has been an essential tool for reconstructing dynamics from complex data. With the increasingly available multifaceted data, a system can often be characterized across multiple spaces. Therefore, it is crucial to maintain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Zixuan Cang , Yanxiang Zhao

The modeling of phenomenological structure is a crucial aspect in inverse imaging problems. One emerging modeling tool in computational imaging is the optimal transport framework. Its ability to model geometric displacements across an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 John Lee , Nicholas P. Bertrand , Christopher J. Rozell

Many biological systems are observed through heterogeneous modalities, requiring transport models that couple dynamics across spaces while allowing mass variation. To address this challenge, we introduce Unbalanced Synchronized Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zixuan Cang , Jingfeng Wang , Xiaoqi Wei , Yanxiang Zhao

Few-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification (FS-RSSC) presents the challenge of classifying remote sensing images with limited labeled samples. Existing methods typically emphasize single-modal feature learning, neglecting the potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zhong Ji , Ci Liu , Jingren Liu , Chen Tang , Yanwei Pang , Xuelong Li

Flow models parameterized as time-dependent velocity fields can generate data from noise by integrating an ODE. These models are often trained using flow matching, i.e. by sampling random pairs of noise and target points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini , Stephen Y. Zhang , Michal Klein , Marco Cuturi

This article introduces a new class of fast algorithms to approximate variational problems involving unbalanced optimal transport. While classical optimal transport considers only normalized probability distributions, it is important for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Lenaic Chizat , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer , François-Xavier Vialard